Friday, February 08, 2013

At
The Cinema

It's Murder

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I
haven't spoken of it, but Midsomer
Murders has been, along with Top
Gear
re-runs, my go-to feel-good entertainment source. Like Doc Martin
(which series MoSup has now watched twice), it's holding power

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over me has much to do with the ensemble of regular characters, and
interesting if somewhat obtuse murder mysteries, and understated
humor..

But that's not what this is about. Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter
is (I love the name Annika). But, just when I got to where I couldn't get enough of it, it was
over. Just six episodes. Damn Damn Damn.

Unlike the video sample, it's subtitled of course. Unreliably
so. Is
there anything worse than white or yellow subtitles against a white
background? Or black against black? If the United Nations
wants to do
something useful, it ought mandate that all subtitles be yellow
with black borders!
So there's that. Sometimes the same subtitled dialog will stay
on the
screen while a boatload of Swedegibberish is being spoken; and
then,to
catch up, the next four flash by in one second.

Don't matter. I loved it.

Oh, and one more
thing. It seems that Sweden have sunshine laws that allow any
citizen, at anytime, to look at the public records of any
government employee, including the police. I mean
everything. Annika is able to go to a clerk in the Swedish
government and peruse an up-to-date elected politician's expense
report, and submitted receipts. Can you imagine? Our
politicians can, so you'll never see it here.

Comments:

Separate
from the White House, John Roberts now leads a Supreme Court that very
clearly can be persuaded by PR campaigns and is now constantly targeted
to do what is right in terms of public relations and not necessarily
the law or constitution. Erick
Erikson

Roger mentioned watching "Doc Martin" on TV. My wife and I watch nearly all of the program every Saturday night on PBS. The Docto reminds us both of the grouchy old fart that was in our hometown in northern Montana back in the 40s and 50s. In is show, Doc Martin doesn't seem to drink much, if any, alcohol. But old Doc Olson did his best surgical work after he had put in a long session in the Elks Club bar. He was called out of the Elks Club when my now wife needed an appendectomy. Today there is virtually no scar remaining, as there seems to be with most similar surgeries.

Most - if not all Scandinavian Crime mysteries are leftist agitprop written by upper-class red-wine-socialist millionaire writers, who hate the common people. Liza Marklund is a very good examp+le of these people. Yes I live in Denmark.

Thanks Hodja - yes, it's blatantly apparent that the author i sympathetic to commies (like Annika's commie radical friend in the newsroom. Still, by American standards, where every show goes out of its way to bash conservationism Christians, and real Americans, this is a cupcake. BTW, what Danish movies/TV series would you recommend?

ALSO - while I'm at it. DOUG M-I watched the first two Wallander's, and talk about depressing. Not a second of levity; not a single smile that wasn't ironic; and the most gruesomely depicted homicides extant!

I find that each episode must be followed by two Prozac and three fingers of red whiskey.